How often do you get a really great movie in the romantic monster comedy genre (AKA "romster comedy" or "romcomster")? "Not that often" is the correct answer, but luckily a bunch of Australian filmmakers and comedians got together to produce the ultimate example of the romcomster — featuring musical interludes. The…

It's comforting to know that during the height of Reagan's Cold War in the 1980s, the Soviet Union was making movies that were just as cheesy as the ones you could see in the United States. When you see this clip of the scary, growling radioactive giant turtle from Мутанты (which means Mutant), you'll be forced to…

This is probably my favorite giant monster scene ever, just because it shows dragons fighting helicopters. I'm not sure why it's so satisfying, but my heart just leaps when that huge snakey dragon BITES A HELICOPTER. With his MOUTH. Oh, you need back story? This is a clip from D-War, AKA Dragon Wars, which is about…

All this rampant speculation about the Cloverfield monster has been distraction from the real thrill of the movie: Getting to watch a reenactment of 9/11 without all the scary political implications and the guilt over one's fascination with mass death. Like the disturbing original Gojira from 1954, Cloverfield is a…

A bunch of innocent teens are raving in the forest when . . . they're trampled by a giant woolly mammoth, re-animated after thousands of years in ice by an alien implant that tells it to KILL KILL. Summer Glau, whose powers of acting have been used more wisely in Firefly and upcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles, is the…